In progress at UNHQ

Press Conference


23 April 1999



Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFING BY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME

19990423

A new emergency operation for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea would enable the World Food Programme (WFP) to reach another 1.1 million children between the ages of 11 and 17, as well as 25 per cent of the elderly population in that country, the WFP Executive Director, Catherine Bertini, said today at a Headquarters press briefing.

22 April 1999



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE ON TOURISM BY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION

19990422

At a Headquarters press conference on Wednesday afternoon, Jeb Brugmann, Secretary-General of the International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives, said that for tourism to survive and be sustained, it had to work with local communities or stakeholders who knew best what was needed to maintain the unique characteristics that made tourist destinations attractive.

22 April 1999



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE ON EARTH DAY 2000 CELEBRATION

19990422

The celebration of Earth Day 2000 would take place in April, a year from now, and start a process which would culminate in the observance of World Environment Day (5 June), Dennis Hayes, Chairman of Earth Day Network, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this morning.

20 April 1999



Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFING ON ANTI-PERSONNEL MINE CONVENTION

19990420

Landmines must continue to be an international priority until all anti- personnel mines had been eliminated and their victims had reclaimed their lives, the Permanent Representative of Mozambique to the United Nations, Carlos Dos Santos, told a press briefing at Headquarters this morning.

19 April 1999



Press Briefing

PRESS CONFERENCE ON CHILDREN AND ARMED CONFLICT

19990419

The use and abuse of child soldiers was a destructive phenomenon that wrecked a child's life forever, and those who forced or conscripted children into battle had a "moral vacuum" at their core, correspondents were told this morning by the Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Stephen Lewis, at a Headquarters press conference.

16 April 1999



Press Briefing

PRESS BRIEFING BY UN POPULATION FUND

19990416

The emergency reproductive health kits sent by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to United Nations agencies on the "front lines" of the Kosovo refugee crisis contained more than just emergency contraception to prevent unwanted pregnancies, the Executive Director of UNFPA, Dr. Nafis Sadik, told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing Thursday afternoon.